Birth Chart - 3rd House - The Natural House of Gemini

The 3rd house is naturally associated with the sign Gemini and its ruling planet Mercury.

After stabilising our self identity, and acquiring a sense of security in the 2nd, we need, in the 3rd house, to establish our relationship to our immediate environment.

This house represents the area of experience concerned with communication and the exchange of information with our immediate social environment. It represents the activity of learning and the type and direction of intellectual and educational skills.

On a more mundane level, the 3rd house is related to short journeys immediate relatives (brothers and sisters if any), and their roles in our lives.